Advocate staff photo by HEATHER MCCLELLAND -- Parish Attorney Mary Roper listens as Metro Council members comment on a request for a continuance for her hearing Tuesday. The council voted to defer Roper's hearing until June 18.

Parish Attorney office in trouble for missing federal court deadlines

Advocate staff photo by HEATHER MCCLELLAND -- Parish Attorney Mary Roper listens as Metro Council members comment on a request for a continuance for her hearing Tuesday. The council voted to defer Roper's hearing until June 18.

Parish Attorney Mary Roper could be sanctioned in federal court because her office submitted a response on behalf of the city-parish to a lawsuit five months late.